Health Data Breach Tracker/AL

Healthcare Provider · Archived

Flowers Hospital

629 individuals · submitted April 25, 2014

About this report

The covered entity (CE), Flowers Hospital was informed by law enforcement on February 27, 2014, that while one of its employees was being arrested, the CE’s paper facesheets were found in his possession. An internal investigation revealed that the employee may have accessed or allowed another individual access to the clinical and demographic information of 1,208 individuals. The CE provided breach notification to HHS, to affected individuals, and to the media. In response to the breach, the CE implemented procedures to further restrict access to paper records and improved its maintenance and storage procedures. OCR obtained assurances that the CE implemented the corrective actions listed above.

Summary as published by the HHS Office for Civil Rights.

Organization
Flowers Hospital
State
AL
Entity type
Healthcare Provider
Individuals affected
629
Submission date
April 25, 2014
Breach type
Theft
Location of information
Paper/Films
Business associate present
No
OCR status
Archived

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